Janevska S^*#, Weiser S^*, Huang Y, Lin J, Hoefgen S, Jojić K, Barber AE, Schäfer T, Fricke J, Hoffmeister D, Regestein L, Valiante V, Kufs JE^# (2024) Optimized psilocybin production in tryptophan catabolism-repressed fungi. Microb Biotechnol 17(11), e70039.

Bissell AU, Rautschek J, Hoefgen S, Raguž L, Mattern DJ, Saeed N, Janevska S, Jojić K, Huang Y, Kufs JE, Herboeck B, Guo H, Hillmann F, Beemelmanns C, Valiante V (2022) Biosynthesis of the sphingolipid inhibitors sphingofungins in filamentous fungi requires aminomalonate as a metabolic precursor. ACS Chem Biol 17(2), 386-394.

Günther M^*, Reimer C^*, Herbst R^*, Kufs JE, Rautschek J, Ueberschaar N, Zhang S, Peschel G, Reimer L, Regestein L, Valiante V, Hillmann F^#, Stallforth P^# (2022) Yellow polyketide pigment suppresses premature hatching in social amoeba. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 119(43), e2116122119.

Kufs JE, Reimer C, Stallforth P, Hillmann F, Regestein L^* (2022) The potential of amoeba-based processes for natural product syntheses. Curr Opin Biotechnol 77, 102766. (Review)

Kufs JE, Reimer C, Steyer E, Valiante V, Hillmann F, Regestein L (2022) Scale-up of an amoeba-based process for the production of the cannabinoid precursor olivetolic acid. Microb Cell Fact 21(1), 217.

Reimer C^*, Kufs JE^*, Rautschek J, Regestein L, Valiante V^#, Hillmann F^# (2022) Engineering the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum for biosynthesis of a cannabinoid precursor and other polyketides. Nat Biotechnol 40(5), 751-758.

Kufs JE, Hoefgen S, Rautschek J, Bissell AU, Graf C, Fiedler J, Braga D, Regestein L, Rosenbaum MA, Thiele J, Valiante V (2020) Rational design of flavonoid production routes using combinatorial and precursor-directed biosynthesis. ACS Synth Biol 9(7), 1823-1832.

Hoefgen S, Lin J, Fricke J, Stroe MC, Mattern DJ, Kufs JE, Hortschansky P, Brakhage AA, Hoffmeister D, Valiante V (2018) Facile assembly and fluorescence-based screening method for heterologous expression of biosynthetic pathways in fungi. Metab Eng 48, 44-51.

Laitem C, Zaborowska J, Isa NF, Kufs J, Dienstbier M, Murphy S (2015) CDK9 inhibitors define elongation checkpoints at both ends of RNA polymerase II-transcribed genes. Nat Struct Mol Biol 22(5), 396-403.